This year marks the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War One.  DAR is proud to be a Partner Organization with the United States World War One Centennial Commission. In conjunction with the partnership, commemorations of this critical time in United States’ history and the

Season’s Greetings from the DAR! During the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, have you ever stopped to ponder the beginnings of the Christmas card?

In England it was customary to send a Christmas or New Year’s letter of well wishes to friends and family.  During the late 1830s

October is American Archives Month, a time when archivists are encouraged to professionally advocate for their profession and explain the impact archives have on society. In case you missed it, the NSDAR Archives hosted a Facebook Live on the National Headquarters Facebook page earlier this month, which answered many

Today marks the 17th anniversary of the premiere of NBC’s award-winning political drama The West Wing.  The program ran from 1999 to 2006 and scenes from the series primarily took place in the West Wing of the White House.  The plot revolved around the trials and tribulations of the

Today is National Aviation Day, a national observation that celebrates the development of aviation!  Established in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the anniversary of Orville Wright’s birthday, this day encourages us to celebrate the achievements made by both men and women in the field of aviation.  For our inaugural

I am thrilled to be today’s guest blogger and update everyone on the many exciting things happening in the NSDAR Archives. As an archivist at DAR Headquarters it is my responsibility to select materials for the archives, to preserve them, and make them available for current and future researchers

The concept of the Americana Collection, which would house early-American manuscripts, emerged at the time of the commemoration of the DAR’s 50th anniversary in 1940.  No formal collection of such material existed at the National Society prior to that time; rather, documents were dispersed among the holdings of the